If the Deepmind alignment team wanted to host something here I would probably give them a substantial discount! If the Anthropic alignment team wanted to host something here I would probably charge them a small but not enormous tax.
Are you saying that you believe Google Deepmind’s alignment team is doing better work than Anthropic’s alignment team? If so, that’s a noteworthy update for me. (My vague impression was that Anthropic is the least bad AI lab, but perhaps I’ve not paid enough attention.)
Yep, I am generally on the record thinking that Deepmind’s (UK) safety team is doing the best work on a few different dimensions (including taking the existential risk problem most straightforwardly seriously, and generally contributing to discourse and sanity in the space the most).
This isn’t to say I think Deepmind is a great organization! I think a non-trivial reason for my optimism here comes from the fact that the Deepmind safety team is a much smaller part of Deepmind than the Anthropic and OpenAI teams, and this allows them to specialize more into the important things, and allows them to speak more freely because their statements don’t cause everyone to panic or be taken as representative of the org.
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Are you saying that you believe Google Deepmind’s alignment team is doing better work than Anthropic’s alignment team? If so, that’s a noteworthy update for me. (My vague impression was that Anthropic is the least bad AI lab, but perhaps I’ve not paid enough attention.)
Yep, I am generally on the record thinking that Deepmind’s (UK) safety team is doing the best work on a few different dimensions (including taking the existential risk problem most straightforwardly seriously, and generally contributing to discourse and sanity in the space the most).
This isn’t to say I think Deepmind is a great organization! I think a non-trivial reason for my optimism here comes from the fact that the Deepmind safety team is a much smaller part of Deepmind than the Anthropic and OpenAI teams, and this allows them to specialize more into the important things, and allows them to speak more freely because their statements don’t cause everyone to panic or be taken as representative of the org.